North Korean Leader Kim Jong Il Has Died Aged 70, South Korea On Emergency Footing
Just out on Yonhap:
- North Korea says its leader Kim Jong-il has died.
- N. Korean leader died of fatigue at 8:30 a.m. Dec. 17 during train ride: KCNA
From Daily Yomiuri:
- Cause of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's death is said to be a stroke.
And Reuters confirms:
- NORTH KOREA STATE TELEVISION SAYS KIM JONG IL HAS DIED
Great. More geopolitical uncertainty. Because as the Arab Spring has shown us there is nothing quite as stable as a transitory military government to fill a power vacuum (also see Thermidorian reaction during the French Revolution).
As expected the South Korean response is immediate.
- S. Korean gov't shifts to emergency footing on news of N.K. leader's death
South Korean on emergency alert following the news:
South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) on Monday placed all military
units on emergency alert following the news of North Korean leader Kim
Jong-il's death.
The JCS said it called an emergency meeting
of officials handling crisis management and operations just after noon
Monday, after the North Korean media reported Kim's death.
Some more from Reuters:
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il died on Saturday on a train trip, a tearful state television announcer, dressed in black, reported on Monday.
The announcer said that the 69-year old had died of physical and mental over-work on his way to give "field guidance".
He had suffered a stroke in 2008, but appeared to have recovered.
The reclusive state had begun the process of transferring power to his son Kim Jong-un, believed to be in his late 20s.
And Yonhap:
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, who ruled the communist nation with an iron fist while pursuing nuclear weapons programs, has died, state media said Monday. He was 69.
Kim, who took over North Korea after his father and national founder Kim Il-sung died in 1994, "passed away from a great mental and physical strain" during a train ride at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday, the Korean Central News Agency said in an urgent dispatch.
Bloomberg chimes in:
- A govt statement called on North Koreans to “loyally follow” his son, Kim Jong Un
- Kim, 70, died on Dec. 17 of exhaustion brought on by a sudden illness while on a domestic train trip, the official Korean Central News Agency says
- Kim probably had a stroke in August 2008 and may have also contracted pancreatic cancer, according to South Korean news reports
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I hope the dingo got him
TPTB: "This is a great opportunity to set up a new Central Bank."
Bullish! OK we got that out of the way...
The great leader missed the year end blowout sale on PMs.
how does one pronounce ahmeexnal?
One doesn't I think AS.
And the Great leader dies. Succession battles, unstable NK, Noooclear...yaaaah, what a dream set up for Spooks. Now they can make NK "do" anything. I think the CHinese will get in deeper now.
Ahmeexnal is right, it's wartime baby. Someone, somewhere thinks someone somewhere needs a little blowing up.
ori
/this-that-and-the-4th-reich/
You can't say that little bastard didn't run a tight ship.. Chances are the heir won't be nearly as bad...which is precisely why we will kill him. Mommar got soft so we killed him. I don't think Iran and Syria are eager to make concessions based upon the last 60 years of US diplomacy.
RP2012
Sucks to be a dictator in 2011... 13 more days and this awful year is over!
wtf are you talking about. Look at obama having a fucking ball of his life on the taxpayers dollar............
WTF, he died waiting for a train?
I know lots of people who have grown old waiting for British Rail, but death? Nah...
I wonder if they're gonna put him in an elevated oversized casket.
No, they already buried him at sea, according to Korean custom.
No, you are confusing him with OBL. CBS just announced they won't feed him to the worms until after Christmas.
I guess firing off a rocket or two in celebration would be considered bad form.
If my memory serves me right, about a year ago I said we would go to war with N. Korea (in addition to Russia and China). Kim Jong Il is probably still alive. The baton is being passed to his son, another Illuminati lacky.
*snap snap* wake up. The tinfoil hat on your head is too tight and restricting the blood flow.
Awesome avatar !!!
Kim Il's favorite ditty will be played across the land, from every public loudspeaker, in honor of the late Maximum Leader ( and his predilection for American hip-hop ) on the day of his funerary remembrance...
http://youtu.be/t0oALRL7uyY
Fell off the fan tail with Bin laden.
Right now, 50 million South Koreans are running Excel to try and figure out the the amount of the pending North Korea Bailout Tax Surcharge they'll have to pay in order to keep North Koreans fed and with electricity and utilities for the next decade (as China wipes its hands and sings 'free at last').
south korea might be working with US on a quick attack.
expect volatility on EWY and samsung TV prices.
"south korea might be working with US on a quick attack."
And related false-flag 'provocation'.
You hit the nail on the head. S. Korea will be threatened and it will cause prices to go up. Now's a good time to stock up on DRAM.
Ahmeexnal - The spelling confuses you. Its pronounced Smythe.
Kim Jong IL? I didn't even know he was ded.
rest in pieces cupcake
Do we call him Kim Jong Dead now?
very crever, Rong John!
'Dear Departed'
"I'm so ronery..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdug6yHJB40
Now, finally we hit them with the death tax! Thats justice Federal Government style............bitchezssss
zero hedge bitches....even for communist dictators
when is dick Cheney going to have another heart attack?
Doesn't have a heart.
Those Goa'uld overlords sure are hard on their host bodies.
If he only had a brain ....
It's a shame I can only give you one upvote.
Vely crever, ledpirr. Now take your weapons of mass destruction, and get the fuck out of here!
[Sotto voce] Why's everybody gotta be so fucking stupid?
Harro and Prease
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJC7ykAPXuw
He's been il for a very long time.
Il fait mort.
amassing a wine cellar with more than 10,000 bottles and downing massive amounts of lobster and cognac.
he should have drank more of that fine wine.
lobster and cognac sound like a good combo.....the kim jong il special.
Gravestone: "See, I told you I was Il!"
If this is your play on words Limbaugh just stole it..
It's nice to know the world will view the deaths of George Bush, Dick Cheney and many of our other illustrious leaders with about the same reaction, thank God he's dead. That's one way to get rid of them.
Why is the lame stream media blaming the down market on Il's death and not on Europe?
What problem in Europe?
Europe had nothing to do with Kim's death.
Jesus.
Focus, people.
Seriously.
sarc-off for the il minded amongst you
ileemosynary post. ;-)
LOL
Counting coup.
:)
Were Bush and Cheney dictators for life leaving the government and starving people to their sons? I must have missed something.
i friend of mine married a s. korean girl, long ago.....this was before i even knew or cared about k. j. i......she told us stories of a guy who when he played golf, he always got a hole in one...when he bowled, always a perfect game and so on....the power of propaganda is unbelievable......so when you see the natives crying for this guy, just think how programmed they are.....
They are crying because Democracry and Death is coming for them.
Motherfucker, I'm Il, not sick!
- Ril' Wayne
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/north-korean-leader-kim-jong-il-has-died
I can get you a link to the Mayan calender, you have got to hand it to them Mayans, they called mega-global-instability from a way's off, i hear they were long gold.
I seriously doubt it.
The Mayans believed that the earth was a flat disc sitting on the back of a gigantic alligator. They most certainly didn´t have a clue about any calendars. It´s a modern scam to sell books etc.
lol...
"The Mayans believed that the earth was a flat disc sitting on the back of a gigantic alligator."
What more needs to be said.
Turtles, all the way down.
You mean it isn't?
Coincedence you decide...
He most likely died a few days ago.. not today..
A couple of days ago the U.S. Stated it would get back to talks with North Korea and possibly start providing food aid again..
And now that he is gone, can we ask his son for a bailout for the world?
Massive North Korean migration into China or South Korea will be a huge economic drag for either country. One reason China supported the Jong Il regime was that it didn't want the burden of absorbing North Korean refugees.
Korean reunificaiton would cost South Korea tens of billions.
I hear South Korea already has a fund set up just for that eventuality. They've had it for years, maybe as a way to entice the north. It is a matter of national pride just go and ask the Germans.
hum I wonder how many new silver pesos would Mexico pay for Texas. I don't think they would buy California even on a mid-night fire sale. lol
As a Texan, we have plenty of Mexicans living here. I think Mexico already won. Odelay vato!!
As a Texas, I think you are retarded.
As a Texan, I think we are lucky to be next to Mexico rather than North Korea.
As a "Texas", you think he is retarded??? ROFLMAO
As a Texan, I'm voting for Ron Paul!!
Tmos aka "TEX" open mouth remove foot...
Mexico has oil, PM and tequila. When the ultra deep is verified in the gulf, in a month, Mexico will blow out the oil market. Oh, you can add copper. They also hava a 100 billion in reserves and the PRI is coming back into power next year, perfect dictatorship returns... And this will cool off the Narcos big time. Go long Mexico. And, if that were not enough, they own the Southwest including Cali. And, with the idiot Cubanazo Rubio as Vice President todo vale madre.
Tequila...a major selling point. Here's another http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biH0uGHsPaU.
Oil never hurts, either.
You had me at Tequila.
The Great Glorious Korean Reunification and Prison Camp Soup Petal Blossom Fund was being custodied at MF Global.
They were gonna start the fund this year.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-31/s-korea-plans-50b-fund-for-reun...
I don't think anything is in the pot, yet. Yikes.
My SK relatives would gladly suffer some economic drawbacks if that meant reuniting with their fellow countrymen.
Kim can join his friends, Mao, Stalin, Che', Pol Pot and a few others in the afterlife. I suspect they'll be settled in the basement. I think they'll save room for Castro and have a grand reunion.
Good riddance. Maybe those poor bastards in N. Korea will have a chance at some kind of life...maybe.
Korean reunificaiton would cost <strike>South Korea</strike> the United States tens of billions.
FIFY.
He probably died days ago from AIDS or some other STD...but we will never know. I hope the people rise up against the fucker fascists there. There is gonna be a ton of market angst in the coming months, but massive opportunity once we find out who the new leadership will be, or perhaps a reunification with the South.
Pipe dream. Reunification is gonna need a war first. People are so fucked up there. Like trying to unify your family with the space cult next door or the Latino gang next county over
There was a time when everyone thought the same was true for Germany. It wasn't, as it turned out. All it took was for people to get fed up enough with the idiocy of Communism and envious enough of the lifestyle provided by mixed market economies.
It cost West Germany a trillion 1990s $ to do the reunification.
That's a fart in the wind compared to the cost of funding the Euro.
We restarted because Kim was going "off-line."
Winter weather on the Korean Peninsula?
Chilly, with a chance of Black Swan mushroom clouds.
The Food is an olive branch to Kim Jong-Un a 4-star general born in 1984(?).
I hope we put a couple X-Boxes and Call of Duty in with that rice.
Like a lot of family businesses, it takes two generations to build it up on a daily basis and one generation to burn it all down overnight.
Jong-un will have to kill-purge half his government if he wants to survive 2012.
A ton of DPRK generals are waiting to take it all and retire to the OC.
What a crazy planet.
"Don't worry about a thing, 'Cause every little thing gonna be all right. Singin': "Don't worry about a thing, 'Cause every little thing gonna be all right!"
-B. Marley
Everbody is just jealous cause they haven't shot over 200 holes in one in their life, like dear leader Kim. haterz
And the playboy could 360 tomahawk slam it from the freethrow line with a blindfold on.
Ahhh, to dictate a country...
Short mans disease is a bitch.
Yeah, but he couldn't swim with Chairman Mao when dear leader averaged 22 miles per hour on the Yellow River. Their newsies reported that stright up.
I wish that Barney Frank has such a media that reort his derring do as well as Chicom media. Oh wait, we do!
To da loo, mutha fucccallallalla . . .
So long, gay boys!
Every man's death diminishes me...do not ask for whom the bell tolls...yada, yada, yada.
Couldn't have happened to a more deserving motherfucker. Now if we can get a year-end clearance special and pick up Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, 2011 would go down as one helluva year!
Hopefully not.
My guess would be that Kim Jong Eun tries to consolidate power and plays it safe. His succession has been planned already and unless the generals decide to bail on him, we will not see too much instability.
In case it does come to war though I suggest my fellow Seoulite expats register with the embassy and research the fastest undersground route southwards. If an attack does happen you are advised by the military to just go south and get picked up.
Bull shit ! OK ! It's time for Monedas to call in some cards ! I told you Bush of Arabia's Rout On Terror was accelerating ! I told you Mubarak was faking it ! I told you Syria, Iran, Russia, China and Norkom dominoes are going to fall ! These populations are sick of Socialism and are ripe for what we used to have and still have some of....freedom ! Get over it ! You were all dead wrong about Bush's little war ! The truth is these backward societies are so hungry for change....it didn't matter that much what Bush did....just muck it up and percipitate rebellion ! Monedas 2011 Comedy Jihad Want A Piece Of Me Bring It On Socialist MSM Half Wits !